受聘 | shou4 pin4 | engaged (for a task) |
同房 | tong2 fang2 | to live together |
在地上 | zai4 di5 shang4 | on the ground |
塔里木 | ta3 li3 mu4 | Talimu |
备料 | bei4 liao4 | to get the materials ready |
太平洋地区 | tai4 ping2 yang2 di5 qu1 | in the Pacific region |
夷 | yi2 | to raze |
孔道 | kong3 dao4 | opening providing access |
安歇 | an1 xie1 | to go to bed |
定婚 | ding4 hun1 | be engaged to be married |
布道 | bu4 dao4 | to preach (the Christian gospel) |
希格斯 | xi1 ge2 si1 | Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson to explain the mass of elementary particles |
并驾齐驱 | bing4 jia4 qi2 qu1 | to keep pace with |